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'''''You didn't strike me as a dangerous guy, is that wrong?'''''<br>{{#tag:span style="color:#990000"|''Rivers:}} Well now we're not that reckless with our lives. That's why I look back on the stuff we did when we were teenagers and I am amazes that we survived. I'm so scared for myself now looking back. It's crazy.'' {{#tag:span style="color:#990000"|''Scott:}} It's the same with us, climbing on the roofs of churches and setting. Setting block long leaf piles on fire. Destructing as much property as possible. We were driving really intoxicated really fast. It's a miracle we didn't die.'' {{#tag:span style="color:#990000"|''Rivers:}} And some people did die. I did have friends in high school who did die from stupidity.''}} | '''''You didn't strike me as a dangerous guy, is that wrong?'''''<br>{{#tag:span style="color:#990000"|''Rivers:}} Well now we're not that reckless with our lives. That's why I look back on the stuff we did when we were teenagers and I am amazes that we survived. I'm so scared for myself now looking back. It's crazy.'' {{#tag:span style="color:#990000"|''Scott:}} It's the same with us, climbing on the roofs of churches and setting. Setting block long leaf piles on fire. Destructing as much property as possible. We were driving really intoxicated really fast. It's a miracle we didn't die.'' {{#tag:span style="color:#990000"|''Rivers:}} And some people did die. I did have friends in high school who did die from stupidity.''}} | ||
The song is mainly about Rivers Cuomo and his days as a teenager in Connecticut, and the shenanigans he and his friends would get into. They called their antics "getting dangerous". [[Adam Orth]], a longtime friend of Cuomo, posted a [[Getting Dangerous|blog entry]]<ref name="Getting Dangerous">Orth, Adam. "we should have died a long time ago." 3 June 2008. Archived by ''Wayback Machine''. https://web.archive.org/web/20080610144622/http://web.mac.com/adamorth/adam_orth/words./Entries/2008/6/3_we_should_have_died_a_long_time_ago..html</ref> in [[2008]] on his website explaining events referenced in the song's lyrics. | The song is mainly about Rivers Cuomo and his days as a teenager in Connecticut, and the shenanigans he and his friends would get into. They called their antics "getting dangerous". [[Adam Orth]], a longtime friend of Cuomo, posted a [[Getting Dangerous|blog entry]]<ref name="Getting Dangerous">Orth, Adam. "we should have died a long time ago." 3 June 2008. Archived by ''Wayback Machine''. https://web.archive.org/web/20080610144622/http://web.mac.com/adamorth/adam_orth/words./Entries/2008/6/3_we_should_have_died_a_long_time_ago..html</ref> in [[2008]] on his website explaining events referenced in the song's lyrics. | ||
{{ | {{Quote|Rivers used to have this Toyota Tercel and he would drive me and Justin (and sometimes Matt Hayes) home after school. Since we lived in the country (as opposed to the city) there were all sorts of crazy winding roads and hills in our town. This one particularly steep hill on Gurleyville road that led down to Justin’s house was epic. Steep as hell with an unreal 90 degree dead man’s curve at the bottom. Growing up, I saw many cars wreck on that corner. People died there. | ||
Upping the stakes of getting dangerous resulted in a fun little game i used to call “HOLY SHIT WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE”. This is how we played the game. | Upping the stakes of getting dangerous resulted in a fun little game i used to call “HOLY SHIT WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE”. This is how we played the game. | ||
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How we never got as much as a scratch on us is just unbelievable. I often wonder what made us do those things...we all unquestionably had dreams and plans of getting out of that town and “makin’ it big”...I definitely remember feeling immortal back then. I’m sure this is standard operating procedure for most testoserone-fueled teenagers in small towns, but at that time it was ours and we tested the limits again and again and again.|[[Adam Orth]]|[https://web.archive.org/web/20080610144622/http://web.mac.com/adamorth/adam_orth/words./Entries/2008/6/3_we_should_have_died_a_long_time_ago..html blog post, 2008]}} | How we never got as much as a scratch on us is just unbelievable. I often wonder what made us do those things...we all unquestionably had dreams and plans of getting out of that town and “makin’ it big”...I definitely remember feeling immortal back then. I’m sure this is standard operating procedure for most testoserone-fueled teenagers in small towns, but at that time it was ours and we tested the limits again and again and again.|[[Adam Orth]]|[https://web.archive.org/web/20080610144622/http://web.mac.com/adamorth/adam_orth/words./Entries/2008/6/3_we_should_have_died_a_long_time_ago..html blog post, 2008]}} | ||
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